One of the passers-by

The mother and son wandered around the hot spring village for most of the day, and did not return to Tangquan Palace until Jin Wu Xi Chui.

Inside the bamboo shoot hall, Wei Guogong Xue Ji was reviewing his military books. Seeing Pingyang and Xue Yan returning together, he couldn't help but smile and said, "It's just a hot spring village, and it's worth your half-day visit. What's there to do?"

Pingyang smiled and told Xue Ji about the repair of the hot spring village.Hearing this, Xue Ji said with a smile, "It's up to you to make troubles. But what Yan'er said is to introduce running water and dig a pit to make a pond. It's very good, and raise a few fish in it. Then we can eat the fish we raised ourselves. The fish is also a kind of fun.”

Hearing this, the mother and son looked at each other in blank dismay, really not knowing what to say.

Just when he couldn't help laughing secretly, an eunuch from Feishuang Palace came to pass a message, saying that Emperor Yong'an invited Wei Guogong, his wife and his son to Feishuang Palace for dinner.

Princess Pingyang and Xue Yan returned to their room to wash and change their clothes before heading to Feishuang Hall.

In the Feishuang Hall, the crown prince and King Wei were snuggling up next to the Supreme Emperor and listening to him talk about ancient times.Emperor Yong'an and Empress Wei watched with smiles, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.

Returning to sit again after the audience ceremony, Empress Wei smiled at Pingyang and Xue Yan and said, "I heard that you went to the hot spring village today? Why didn't you tell us, wouldn't it be fun to go there together?"

Pingyang smiled and said: "It's just a small village at home, it grows fruits and vegetables, how can it compare to the exquisiteness and elegance of Tangquan Palace."

Empress Wei said: "Rural interest naturally has the benefits of rural interest. I have long heard that the dishes grown by Zhuangzi in Duke Wei's mansion are sweeter than other places. I also raise silkworms every March, and your majesty is even more married to farming mulberry. Take advantage of this opportunity to ask the tenants on the Zhuangzi for advice."

Princess Pingyang waved her hand, and said with a loud smile: "There is no trick, anyway, I didn't see it. It must be that the spring water and fields on the mountain are better. It all depends on the merits of heaven and earth."

The two chatted a few more gossips. Emperor Yong'an heard that Princess Pingyang wanted to follow Xue Yan's suggestion to rebuild the hot spring village, and mentioned to him about paying for the half of the hillside behind the villa.First agree to the latter, and then said with a smile: "Yan'er, do you have any novel ideas? By the way, what happened to the road construction you told me last time, why is there no more text?"

The Supreme Emperor and Empress Wei also knew that Xue Yan didn't want to show off in front of others, so they said with a smile: "Exactly, there are no outsiders here today, so just say what you have, just treat it as gossip from your own family."

Xue Yan smiled slightly, and no longer declined.Immediately explain the meaning of the cement road in detail.In the end, he smiled and said, "I don't know if I can figure it out, so I don't want to talk about it, I just think that it will be done by then, and it won't be too late to show my merits to my uncle."

Emperor Yong'an laughed loudly, waved his hands and said, "That's okay. Aren't you just about to repair the hot spring village? I'll send general supervisors and officials from the Ministry of Industry to help you. I'd like to see how many strange things you still have in your mind." Wonderful idea."

Princess Pingyang and Duke Wei hurriedly bowed and declined after hearing the words, saying that they dare not use public weapons for private use, which may cause criticism from the court and China.Emperor Yong'an didn't take it seriously, and said bluntly: "It's okay, I really told them to follow Yan'er to steal the teacher. Since they are stealing the teacher, they have to pay some apprenticeship first. Ask them to be responsible for repairing your hot spring village, and it's their handover." It's done."

Seeing that Emperor Yong'an was determined to do so, Princess Pingyang and Duke Wei had no choice but to bow to thank them.

Emperor Yong'an thought of ordering Xue Yan to teach the painters of the Ministry of Justice to paint again, so he said with a smile: "This time, when I came to Tangquan Palace, the master craftsman Yan Yude and his younger brother Yan Yuben also came. These two people are very talented, and they love Yan'er Yan'er's painting skills are highly praised. If Yan'er has time, you might as well teach them some more. I heard that they have drawn no less than a hundred pictures of the homework that Yan'er ordered them to do."

Hearing this, Xue Yan smiled and said, "Don't say it's a hundred. Practice makes perfect, even a thousand is not too much."

Emperor Yong'an nodded, and said, "That's not bad. Yan Yuben's fine brushwork in the past few days has really improved."

As for the painters sent by the Ministry of Punishment, it was really difficult for Emperor Yong'an to catch them because of their small officials and humble positions.Besides, the time is still short, Emperor Yong'an didn't bother to ask.

Because it is not suitable to break ground in the first month, Princess Pingyang discussed with Xue Ji and decided to wait until the beginning of spring before breaking ground and repairing the villa.Before that, I would like to ask the master craftsman Yan Yude to communicate with Xue Yan, plan the construction according to the owner's thoughts, and draw the blueprint first.

The two brothers Yan Yude and Yan Yuben once learned painting skills from Xue Yan, so they often jokingly call Xue Yan a master of painting.Also, Emperor Yong'an's edict came first, so he naturally obeyed Xue Yan's wishes.Later, I often marvel at Xue Yan's unconstrained style——

For example, diverting water upwards and downwards with water trucks can not only create hot spring showers, but also divert water into pools, and direct water from the mountains to irrigate fertile fields, thus eliminating the need to rely on the sky to rain, or to use human labor to lift water from the mountains to the mountains to irrigate.

Such as building a glass greenhouse, its quality is as firm as jade, and its surface is as transparent as waves... In fact, lead-barium glass was invented in ancient my country since the Spring and Autumn Period, but it was gradually lost.Therefore, most of Da Chu's current glass is stained glass tribute from the Western Regions, and the transparency naturally does not need the transparent glass of later generations.Therefore, after hearing Xue Yan's words, the Yan family brothers only felt that this was really a fairy tale.However, everyone also knew that Xue Yan had been wandering outside the territory since he was a child, so he might be able to know some strange and ingenious schemes unknown to others, but it is unknown.

If it is said that these are still within the conceivable range of common sense.Then what Xue Yan said next about digging a hole into a pond to build a water park, when heard by the brothers of the Yan family, it became more and more a fantasy.

After being influenced by Xue Yan's nonsense, the poor brothers of the Yan family felt a little erratic, and could hear the sound of something breaking in their bodies.

In addition, Xue Yan still travels with his family in the mountains and rivers of Lishan, wearing flowers and willows.Or learn to ride and shoot bow horse from Wei Ziqi.Towards the beginning of February, there was a report from the imperial court, saying only that the Mohe clan who were far away in Baishan and Heishui had submitted their submission.The sent envoys will arrive in Chang'an around February [-]th.

After receiving the report, Emperor Yong'an immediately ordered to return to Chang'an.

Chang'an in February is still cold and chilling.The northwest wind was blowing, dark clouds shrouded the sky above Chang'an City, flakes of snowflakes were flying all over the sky in the strong wind, and from time to time penetrated into people's collars and necks. It hurts.

The exuberant spring that I felt from the Lishan Tangquan Palace immediately froze to death in the bursts of cold wind.

Xu Yan, the censor doctor who had been rushing to the pass for disaster relief since the twelfth lunar month, returned to Chang'an on the eighth day of February, bringing good news that the people had finally calmed down.In order to relieve the people in the pass, the civil and military officials of the imperial court and the concubines of the harem all donated, and they were very pleased to hear about this.

Emperor Yong'an saw Xu Yan, the royal official in the East Palace Xiande Hall, and after hearing the words and praises for a while, he hadn't had time to persuade Xu Yan to go back to the mansion to rest.The stubborn little old man impeached Yan Junji, the chief of the Hebei Road Marching Army, and Youzhou Daying together in a memorandum.

The reason for the impeachment is still the old story that the national treasury is empty, the people are starving, and the camp in Youzhou consumes food to brew spirits and goods to colonize the world.

Emperor Yong'an had quite a headache.But seeing his confidant and beloved general has aroused public anger, it is necessary to discuss the matter with all the ministers and businessmen.

In the end, Shangshu Youcheng Wei Zhen gave a solution that was not a solution-to persuade His Majesty to follow the example of Emperor Han Jing and issue a ban on alcohol.

There is no way, since Xue Yan successfully brewed strong wine in Youzhou, the prince Xungui of the court tasted this wine and never wanted to drink any other wine.At the beginning, he went to Duke Wei's mansion with a shy face to drink wine. Led by Lu Guogong Jiang Zhi, he even drank and took. When anyone came to beg for wine, they threw him a set of recipes for him to brew by himself.

The families of these meritorious princes also have their old friends, and they communicate like this for a year. Not only in Chang'an, but also in Dachu, there are people brewing strong wine, drinking it themselves, or selling it to others.In this case, it seems unfair to prohibit Youzhou Daying from brewing alcoholic beverages alone.If the imperial court issued a ban, everyone simply stopped drinking.

Not to mention that this order was issued, the whole court was in an uproar.Xue Yan thought that this matter had nothing to do with him.On the contrary, Yan Jun, who is far away in Youzhou, can't gather Qi. He is an old minister of His Majesty's hidden residence, and he is highly valued by His Majesty.Naturally, he would not think that it was Emperor Yong'an who was dissatisfied with him, but he deeply hated Wei Zhen as a meddlesome minister.

After yelling at Wei Zhen in the commander's tent for nearly an hour, he reluctantly ordered the army to forbid the use of grain to brew wine.

However, mountains of gold and silver are right in front of us, and Yan Junji is used to this day-to-day business.Suddenly banned, I am not used to it.After thinking about it, he suddenly focused on the "medical alcohol" invented by Xue Yan before he left.

Because "alcohol" is brewed from straw, stalks, and wheat straw, these are taken from grain and grass, but they are not grain and grass, so they cannot be eaten.However, the alcohol brewed by this method has a mellow smell and taste, and I haven't tried it yet.It was only because Xue Yan repeatedly told him not to enter the mouth, otherwise it would be harmful to the body.

But think about it from another angle, as long as the wine blended with alcohol is not sold to its own people—for example, to the barbarians on the grassland.Wouldn't it be a good thing to earn money from the other party and weaken the power of the other party?

The more Yan Junji thought about it, the more he took it for granted.Immediately, he quietly recruited his confidants and staff to give such and such orders.Because the imperial court had just issued a ban on alcohol, Yan Junji didn't dare to make a big show of it, so he asked his confidants and his family to lead a group of soldiers to spread it out quietly.

There are tens of thousands of generals in the Youzhou camp, and people come and go every day, suddenly there is a shortage of about ten soldiers, and they are still from the Huotou camp. Although everyone is a little surprised, they don't think much about it.Only the two brothers, Sun Zhonghe and Sun Bogu, noticed something was wrong, but because of their limited identities, and because there was no conclusive evidence, they couldn't say much.

Xue Yan didn't know about these trivial matters.It is only said that Xue Yan had nothing to do at home that day, when he was rummaging through the cabinets, he suddenly found a letter that Sun Bogu had given him when he left Youzhou. Thinking of Sun Bogu's compliments to his senior brother Piaomiaozi that day, Xue Yan couldn't feel his heart move.